Boris Gasparov
Biographic Data
| ID | 1130034 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Boris Gasparov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Boris |
| FAMILY NAME | Gasparov |
| SIGNATURE | GASPAROV B |
| AFFILIATIONS | 1ColumbiaUniversity (New York, U.S.A.) |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7271-5740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 24 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Volume I
Stalin and the “dialect of the Kursk-Orel region”
The article explores a link between the “discussion on the problems of theoretical linguistics” in 1952, which culminated with the demise of Nikolai Marr's teaching upon the publication of Stalin's piece on the subject, and the formation of the Union of Soviet writers under Maxim Gorky's chairmanship in 1934, in which Stalin took a very active albeit largely behind-the-scene part. In both cases, the tenor of the abrupt ideological and institution…
Futurism and Phonology
Boris GASPAROV, Université Columbia, New York : «Futurisme et phonologie : les racines futuristes de l'approche du langage chez Jakobson» L'approche générale de Jakobson envers le langage peut se décrire comme une synthèse à travers la réduction : une tentative pour pénétrer les niveaux les plus profonds du langage en le réduisant à ses éléments minimaux. Après avoir atteint le noyau même de la structure linguistique, la théorie des oppositions b…
Marr and Saussure
Theoretical linguistics as a worldview
Lost and not found
Saussure’s quest for constitutive features of language resulted in his formulation of two fundamental principles: first, the bipolarity of the sign, according to which neither form nor meaning of a sign exists as of itself, outside of their mutual relation; and second, the arbitrariness of that relation, i.e., the fact that their link is based solely on convention. The purely relational nature of language, the fact that its entities have no posit…
Platonov and Reshetnikov
Considering wide socio-cultural and literary contexts and referring to biographical data, the article studies the literary life of Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1874). The author maintains that the interpretation of Reshetnikov’s prose is to a considerable extent stereotypical, especially in relation to his work as a narodnik (a populist) and naturalist of the 1860s–1980s, demonstrating that he was a sharp social critic but a second-rate writer. Refer…
Beyond Pure Reason
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic interrelationships, and developed a theory of the anagram so profound it gave rise to poststructural literary criticism. The roots of these dispara…
Beyond pure reason
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré lite…
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at h…
Five operas and a symphony
"In this book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times. Each musical work becomes a tableau representing a moment in Russian history, and…
“Popolo di Pekino”
This chapter examines Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. It discusses how the opera became a tangible presence in the culture of European modernism. It also explains that it took time for Mussorgsky's innovative dramatic design to be adapted in Western theater and it was Giacomo Puccini's Turandot that introduced a Musorgskian unruly crowd to the Western musical drama.
Over the Barriers
In Search of a Vanished World
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Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 3. Russian Literature in Modern Times
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Vol III
Narrative and Freedom
In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, televis…
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 1. Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages
La linguistique slavophile
Dans les années 1869-70 apparut un nouveau courant dans la linguistique et la philosophie du langage en Russie, intimement lié à la philosophie et à l'idéologie Slavophiles. Parmi ses partisans, dont les intérêts allaient de la philosophie du langage aux problèmes de l'enseignement de la langue maternelle à l'école, se trouvaient K.S. Aksakov, V.I. Dahl, N.P. Nekrasov, N.I. Bogorodickij, A.A. Dmitrievskij. Ils insistaient sur les profondes différ…
On "Notes From the Leningrad Blockade"
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 1
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Introduction: The Golden Age and Its Role in the Cultural Mythology of Russian Modernism, Boris Gasparov I. The Cultural Myth of Pushkin Irina Paperno Olga Matich Joan Delaney Grossman Liza Knapp David M. Bethea Andrew Wachtel Boris Gasparov II. Pushkin as an Institution Marcus C. Levitt Robert P. Hughes Greta N. Slobin Stephanie Sandler III. Pushkin in the Twentieth Century: Readings, Texts, and Subtexts William Mills Todd I…
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism
"Poetika "Slovo o polku Igoreve
La linguistique slavophile
Dans les années 1869-70 apparut un nouveau courant dans la linguistique et la philosophie du langage en Russie, intimement lié à la philosophie et à l'idéologie Slavophiles. Parmi ses partisans, dont les intérêts allaient de la philosophie du langage aux problèmes de l'enseignement de la langue maternelle à l'école, se trouvaient K.S. Aksakov, V.I. Dahl, N.P. Nekrasov, N.I. Bogorodickij, A.A. Dmitrievskij. Ils insistaient sur les profondes différ…
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Introduction: The Golden Age and Its Role in the Cultural Mythology of Russian Modernism, Boris Gasparov I. The Cultural Myth of Pushkin Irina Paperno Olga Matich Joan Delaney Grossman Liza Knapp David M. Bethea Andrew Wachtel Boris Gasparov II. Pushkin as an Institution Marcus C. Levitt Robert P. Hughes Greta N. Slobin Stephanie Sandler III. Pushkin in the Twentieth Century: Readings, Texts, and Subtexts William Mills Todd I…
The Narrative Text as an Act of Communication
OLLOWING THE DISCOVERY of a parallelism between certain cultural phenomena and the act of communication in natural language, one of the most important tasks in contemporary semiotic analysis has become the construction, on the basis of this parallelism, of a typological model. The fruitfulness of such an approach has already been demonstrated.' The present essay examines in this light the narrative literary text, i.e., a verbal text which functio…
The Narrative Text as an Act of Communication
OLLOWING THE DISCOVERY of a parallelism between certain cultural phenomena and the act of communication in natural language, one of the most important tasks in contemporary semiotic analysis has become the construction, on the basis of this parallelism, of a typological model. The fruitfulness of such an approach has already been demonstrated.' The present essay examines in this light the narrative literary text, i.e., a verbal text which functio…
"Poetika "Slovo o polku Igoreve
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism
On "Notes From the Leningrad Blockade"
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 1
Cultural Mythologies of Russian Modernism
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Introduction: The Golden Age and Its Role in the Cultural Mythology of Russian Modernism, Boris Gasparov I. The Cultural Myth of Pushkin Irina Paperno Olga Matich Joan Delaney Grossman Liza Knapp David M. Bethea Andrew Wachtel Boris Gasparov II. Pushkin as an Institution Marcus C. Levitt Robert P. Hughes Greta N. Slobin Stephanie Sandler III. Pushkin in the Twentieth Century: Readings, Texts, and Subtexts William Mills Todd I…
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 1. Slavic Cultures in the Middle Ages
La linguistique slavophile
Dans les années 1869-70 apparut un nouveau courant dans la linguistique et la philosophie du langage en Russie, intimement lié à la philosophie et à l'idéologie Slavophiles. Parmi ses partisans, dont les intérêts allaient de la philosophie du langage aux problèmes de l'enseignement de la langue maternelle à l'école, se trouvaient K.S. Aksakov, V.I. Dahl, N.P. Nekrasov, N.I. Bogorodickij, A.A. Dmitrievskij. Ils insistaient sur les profondes différ…
Narrative and Freedom
In this important and controversial book, one of our leading literary theorists presents a major philosophical statement about the meaning of literature and the shape of literary texts. Drawing on works by the Russian writers Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and Chekhov, by other writers as diverse as Sophocles, Cervantes, and George Eliot, by thinkers as varied as William James, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Stephen Jay Gould, and from philosophy, the Bible, televis…
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Vol. 3. Russian Literature in Modern Times
Christianity and the Eastern Slavs, Vol III
Over the Barriers
In Search of a Vanished World
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Five operas and a symphony
"In this book, Boris Gasparov gazes through the lens of music to find an unusual perspective on Russian cultural and literary history. He discusses six major works of Russian music from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the interplay of musical texts with their literary and historical sources within the ideological and cultural contexts of their times. Each musical work becomes a tableau representing a moment in Russian history, and…
“Popolo di Pekino”
This chapter examines Modest Mussorgsky's opera Boris Godunov. It discusses how the opera became a tangible presence in the culture of European modernism. It also explains that it took time for Mussorgsky's innovative dramatic design to be adapted in Western theater and it was Giacomo Puccini's Turandot that introduced a Musorgskian unruly crowd to the Western musical drama.
The Cambridge Companion to Pushkin
Alexander Pushkin stands in a unique position as the founding father of Russian literature. In this Companion, leading scholars discuss Pushkin's work in its political, literary, social and intellectual contexts. In the first part of the book individual chapters analyse his poetry, his theatrical works, his narrative poetry and historical writings. The second section explains and samples Pushkin's impact on broader Russian culture by looking at h…
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Russian Literature
In Russian history, the twentieth century was an era of unprecedented, radical transformations - changes in social systems, political regimes, and economic structures. A number of distinctive literary schools emerged, each with their own voice, specific artistic character, and ideological background. As a single-volume compendium, the Companion provides a new perspective on Russian literary and cultural development, as it unifies both émigré lite…
Beyond Pure Reason
The Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (1857–1913) revolutionized the study of language, signs, and discourse in the twentieth century. He successfully reconstructed the proto-Indo-European vowel system, advanced a conception of language as a system of arbitrary signs made meaningful through kinetic interrelationships, and developed a theory of the anagram so profound it gave rise to poststructural literary criticism. The roots of these dispara…
Beyond pure reason
Platonov and Reshetnikov
Considering wide socio-cultural and literary contexts and referring to biographical data, the article studies the literary life of Fyodor Reshetnikov (1841–1874). The author maintains that the interpretation of Reshetnikov’s prose is to a considerable extent stereotypical, especially in relation to his work as a narodnik (a populist) and naturalist of the 1860s–1980s, demonstrating that he was a sharp social critic but a second-rate writer. Refer…
Theoretical linguistics as a worldview
Lost and not found
Saussure’s quest for constitutive features of language resulted in his formulation of two fundamental principles: first, the bipolarity of the sign, according to which neither form nor meaning of a sign exists as of itself, outside of their mutual relation; and second, the arbitrariness of that relation, i.e., the fact that their link is based solely on convention. The purely relational nature of language, the fact that its entities have no posit…
Marr and Saussure
Stalin and the “dialect of the Kursk-Orel region”
The article explores a link between the “discussion on the problems of theoretical linguistics” in 1952, which culminated with the demise of Nikolai Marr's teaching upon the publication of Stalin's piece on the subject, and the formation of the Union of Soviet writers under Maxim Gorky's chairmanship in 1934, in which Stalin took a very active albeit largely behind-the-scene part. In both cases, the tenor of the abrupt ideological and institution…
Futurism and Phonology
Boris GASPAROV, Université Columbia, New York : «Futurisme et phonologie : les racines futuristes de l'approche du langage chez Jakobson» L'approche générale de Jakobson envers le langage peut se décrire comme une synthèse à travers la réduction : une tentative pour pénétrer les niveaux les plus profonds du langage en le réduisant à ses éléments minimaux. Après avoir atteint le noyau même de la structure linguistique, la théorie des oppositions b…
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